UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-1862

JEAN COLBERT DJINDJEU NKWENDJA,

Petitioner,
v.
MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General,
Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration

Appeals.

Submitted:

June 20, 2008

Decided:

July 15, 2008

Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Peter Nyoh, PETER NYOH AND ASSOCIATES, Silver Spring, Maryland, for
Petitioner. Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General,
Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, W. Manning Evans, OFFICE OF
IMMIGRATION LITIGATION, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM:
Jean Colbert Djindjeu Nkwendja, a native and citizen of
Cameroon,

petitions

Immigration

Appeals

for

review

affirming

of

an

without

order

of

opinion

the

the

Board

of

Immigration

Judges denial of his applications for relief from removal.

Nkwendja

first

challenges

the

determination

failed to establish eligibility for asylum.

that

he

To obtain reversal of

a determination denying eligibility for relief, an alien must show

that the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable
factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.
INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 (1992).

We have

reviewed the evidence of record and conclude that Nkwendja fails to

show that the evidence compels a contrary result. Having failed to
qualify

for

asylum,

Nkwendja

cannot

standard for withholding of removal.

meet

the

more

stringent

Chen v. INS, 195 F.3d 198,

205 (4th Cir. 1999); INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 430
(1987).
Accordingly,

we

deny

the

petition

for

review.

We

dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions
are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.

PETITION DENIED

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